Enjoy Beth Tauke, associate professor of architecture and associate dean for academic affairs in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, “TED Talk” from TEDxUniversityatBuffalo. Professor Tauke, winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, introduces a paradigm with the human body as the most important site for design in the 21st century. Tauke discusses innovations both external and internal to the body, including medical technology, communication, and entertainment.

The community is invited to the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning’s 43rd commencement on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre. The Commencement address and ceremony is open to the public. No tickets are required to attend...

[INTER]ACT: Embodied Interaction in Post-Architectural Space Kathy Yuen M.Arch/MFA Thesis University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning Committee: Mark Shepard, Nick Bruscia, and Dave Pape How can concrete, embodied interaction with digitally augmented artifacts be used to reveal the...

Making a Mark: Personal Customization in Suburban Housing     Monica Groele M. Arch. Thesis University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning Committee: Dr. Korydon Smith and Dr. E. Sue Weidemann   Since the end of the Second World War, the dominant form of...

Drawing a       (blank)      Scott ArchambaultM. Arch. Thesis University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning Committee: Annette LeCuyer, Nicholas Bruscia, and Gregory Delaney How can architectural representation be re-imagined to allow for...

This is the first in a series of posts highlighting thesis projects that are being completed by University at Buffalo Master of Architecture students.   Visual Perception through the Diffusion of LightTimothy Ung M. Arch. Thesis University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning...

The University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning recently announced its public program series for spring 2013. Be sure to check out all of the lectures and exhibitions that the school has planned. All events are scheduled to be held at 5:30pm in 301 Crosby Hall unless...

Be sure to check out the remaining lectures and exhibitions in the Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning's public program series for fall 2012. For more information, please visit www.ap.buffalo.edu

Don't miss out on what promises to be the competition of the year: UB ArchGSA's Second Annual Architecture and Planning Dodgeball Tournament Highlights from last year's "friendly" competition can be viewed at...

On Saturday June 23, 2012, Buffalo's SiloCity was the destination for lovers of architecture and bees alike. The official opening of “Elevator B” culminated months of planning, designing, and construction for a small group of Master of Architecture students from the University at...

M. Arch Thesis - Matthieu Bain + Andrew Perkins (Part I: http://archinect.com/blog/article/39333739/survivalist-architecture-dwelling-on-waste)   It’s said that “all good architecture leaks,” which makes the home we bought and moved into in October 2011 (for $800) something...

Prior to the completion of the spring semester, members of the Ecological Practices Research Group faculty at the University at Buffalo in conjunction with competition sponsor Rick Smith and Rigidized Metals announced the winning proposal for their HIVE CITY bee habitat design competition. Out of...

  Contributed By: Ana Misenas, Freshman Architecture Student During the fall semester, we (the freshman studio) developed our projects conceptually. We created space based on the relationship between the occupier and the tectonics of the structure. This (spring) semester, we worked...

Contributed By: Megan Basnak, M.Arch Student   “The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.” This quotation, stated by Saint John Chrysostom during the first century reflects the timeless appreciation that has long been...

Contributed By: Timothy Ung, M.Arch Student   While helping architect Kenneth S. Mackay digitize his hand-drawn project, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York, I was intrigued by the proposal for a cone-shaped window to flood the space with even amounts of light. During...

Contributed By: Courtney Creenan, M.Arch Student   Being in architecture school is all about slaving away at your desk all day and throughout the night, right? Although this might be the norm, the University at Buffalo Architecture Graduate Student Association organized and hosted a...

Contributed By: Allison Adderley, M.Arch Student In conjunction with Faculty Members Christopher Romano and Jean LaMarche Formwork has often been defined as a temporary building element, typically neglected and rarely interpreted by architects as anything more than a byproduct of...

Contributed By: Matthieu Bain and Andrew Perkins  Master of Architecture Thesis   How can the remains of a declining city be harvested and utilized to resuscitate space and sustain life? In October, we purchased a house from the Buffalo Foreclosure auction for $800 and moved...

Contributed By: Courtney Creenan, M.Arch + M.UP Student   Getting inside Buffalo, New York’s grain elevators has been on many a University at Buffalo architecture student’s to-do list.  This past fall, students in the Inclusive Design Research Group were able to not only...

The idea for Architect Barbie emerged out of a 2007 exhibition at the University of Michigan’s Architecture School, curated by Professor Despina Stratigakos, for which students and faculty designed prototypes for the doll as a way to explore and playfully critique stereotypes of...

Contributed by: Robert Garlow, M.Arch Student [ How can a better understanding of a material’s reaction to thermal energy allow us to design an architecture that participates and mediates amidst the presence of bodies and/or environmental stimuli? ] Historically, our attempts to suppress a...

Partition Transformation

Contributed by: Robert Garlow, M.Arch Student Studio Abstract: Vertical Constructions is a graduate studio in the Material Culture Graduate Research Group that explores the design and construction of vertical structures. It concentrates on 3 primary objectives: 1) on the differences between...

Contributed By: Gabrielle Printz   This studio, led by Joyce Hwang, asked first year graduate students to consider the collection conceptually, spatially, and in relation to a culture of excess. Walter Benjamin describes the process of assembling the material collection in his...

Contributed By: Scott Archambault The Material Culture research group explores the relationship of people, materials, and ideas and their manifestation into the artifact of the built environment.  The idea of Material Culture is that every material has a culture that inevitably...

This past fall semester, 13 students embarked on an explorative journey in the world of furniture design and construction with Materials and Methods Shop Director Dick Yencer and his assistant Wade Georgi.  Throughout the semester, students were instructed on how to properly use various...